Read Chasing Venus, Andrea Wulf. Science and history. Ultra-high definition view the transit of Venus across the face of the sun...

nasa.gov | Path of the 2012 Venus Transit On June 5-6 2012, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, collected images of one of the rarest predictable solar events: the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. This event happens in pairs eight years apart that are separated from each other by 105 or 121 years. The last transit was in 2004 and the next will not happen until 2117.

Sequence of images of the Venus transit shot at the wavelength of 171 angstroms composited together to show the path of Venus. (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO). June 6, 2012.